Program Information
This micro credential will educate students in a diversity of literature, spanning time periods and the globe. Emphasis will be placed on reading and interpreting literature from a global perspective, focusing on literature that is underrepresented in the traditional literary canon. Students will use literary elements and criticism to reflect on the short stories, poetry, drama, songs, and other pieces of fiction and nonfiction that are presented in class. Students who complete this micro-credential will enhance their creative and critical thinking skills and become problem solvers as well as more engaged citizens. These applied skills will allow students to contextualize issues based on cultural, historical, political, and social contexts.
Program Outcomes
- Graduates will be able to
- Identify and appreciate the range and complexity of human experience as expressed through literature by comparing and contrasting various world views.
- Analyze and evaluate ideologies through exploration of prejudices, cultural imperatives/electives/exclusives, and other social philosophies.
- Create multimedia projects and/or written essays in which these informed opinions take academic shape.
LITR 2103
Concepts in Literature
This course introduces students to the three major forms of literary expression: **fiction, poetry, and drama**. Significant works from each form will be analyzed to reveal creative techniques, how they represent an author’s time, and how they reflect today’s human condition.
Prerequisite: WRIT101
LITR 2173
World Literature
World Literature focuses on the literature of cultures other than those normally discussed in traditional, Western-based courses. The literature of **Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Africans** and less represented cultures will be studied. Examining their poetry, fiction, nonfiction, songs, and oral traditions will nourish an appreciation of the social and cultural contributions of these cultural groups.
Prerequisite: WRIT101 or permission of the department.
LITR 2603
American Literature
Students will encounter American literature from the **Colonial to the Contemporary Periods**, with an emphasis on Modern and Contemporary texts, that reflects the American experience of both mainstream and emerging cultures, represents major American literary movements, genres, writers, and works, and explores such issues as the human experience, the American political arena, and common American ideologies.
Prerequisite: LITR210
